How It All Began.

One evening after work, a bunch of us were thinking about our careers, life, education,,, the drill when we thought we should be doing something with our spare time.  As usual, we spoke about it and did nothing. After 5 mins we changed the topic. Except when we suddenly spoke about getting a cake for a friend's bday from a bakery and we decided how cute it will be if we had cupcakes instead of cakes!

When we were exploring where to get good customized cupcakes from, we realised we did'n't have a single specialized cupcake shop! And so the idea evolved into, let's try baking this weekend and check it out!

After a good deal of shopping in General Bazaar in Hyderabad for all our supplies, we came home and started to bake. We researched and researched and researched and found a nice recipe, called our mom's on the phone and took tips and baked. When we put our first batch of cupcakes in the oven to bake, we had a gang of four girls looking over our shoulders and observing our every move, waiting with bated breath for the cakes to bake. They had a party to go to on a saturday night, but no one would move until they had had a cupcake each. When we put on our oven gloves to take out the tray we heard excited squeals and claps and "oooh" and "aaah"s,  before we could even finish the Chocolate Ganache and Butter Cream frosting on those cakes, they were gobbled up. Satisfied souls finally went into their rooms to get ready for their party, while we, baked another set.

This time around we actually decorated them with the frosting and sprinkles, while one of our friends wrote "Happy Bday Dhruv" on them! At the birthday party, while we were waiting for the birthday boy to come back from dinner, everyone just wanted to take a piece each! One even asked us if he could eat the "B" in the "BDAY", because "Happy Day Dhruv" still makes sense. We stood and guarded our precious little cupcakes! When Dhruv walked in we heaved a sigh of relief and sat down!

So what began with just "baking for a friend" turned into an extremely enjoyable exercise, filled with excitement and anxiousness and pure joy and we decided to do it all over again for a bunch of friends who had got promoted at work!

Only when we got them to our work place the next day did we realise that they were actually a hit! And people were giving us orders for more. And then we decided to make this project of ours work and called ourselves "The CupCake Shop".

We have our tiny little marketing team,  we are blessed with multi talented friends who take awesome pictures and are creative! With their help and advise we finally launched on the morning of May 18th 2011 when we received our first order!

The CupCake Shop is now officially open in Hyderabad!

Please check-out our site : www.thecupcakeshop.in

Here's to more nights/evenings and weekends filled with sugar & spice and everything iced!

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Roopa & Nayana
The CupCake Shop